The media tells US citizens that their bloodletting in Iraq is well under way, although the true scale of the attacks is concealed. Soon, more soldiers will have been killed since the "liberation" than during the invasion. Sustaining the myth of "mission" is becoming difficult. This is not to doubt the achievement of the invaders' propaganda, which was the suppression of the truth that most Iraqis opposed both the regime of Saddam Hussein and the US-UK assault on their country. John Pilger reports.

Some 7,000 Muslim men and boys are believed to have been summarily executed after Serb forces overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.

Global warming effects the ecology of Alaska's paradise. Molly Ivins comments.

When the novelist Walter Mosley saw how deeply the Arab world hated America, he found an explanation in his own backyard. The race riots of the 1960s civil rights struggle were motivated by the same alienation that fuelled the September 11 attacks, Mosley argues.

Two-tier election petitions rejected by Maryland court. The court's ruling overturns the election rule for minor parties which has historically constrained third party efforts, such as that of the Greens. Jeff Barker reports.

Can military intervention be humanitarian? John MacArthur, publisher of "Harper's Magazine," argues that if you count the civilian deaths in Persian Gulf War I, Somalia, Kosovo/Serbia, and the recent US-Iraq war, you have a good argument against liberal interventionism.

Supposedly the US is a government of constitutionally limited powers in which equal citizens can take part in power. According to Sheldon Wolin, author of "Politics & Vision," developments under the Bush administration are leading to "inverted totalitarianism," a form of total power similar to Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.

As the US invasion of Iraq entered its final phase, the US Agency for International Development and the Army Corps of Engineers began making contracts with multitnational corporations. Todd Tavares outlines the real winners of the US-Iraq war.